nanimously; and the king, though he highly resented the speech of
Robert Price, sent a civil message to the commons, declaring that he
should not have given Lord Portland those lands, had he imagined the
House of Commons could have been concerned; "I will therefore recall the
grant!" On receiving the royal message, Robert Price drew up a
resolution to which the house assented, that "to procure or pass
exorbitant grants by any member of the privy council, &c. was a high
crime and misdemeanour." The speech of Robert Price contained truths too
numerous and too bold to suffer the light during that reign; but this
speech against foreigners was printed the year after King William's
death, with this title, "_Gloria Cambriae_, or the speech of a bold
Briton in parliament, against a Dutch Prince of Wales," with this motto,
_Opposuit et Vicit_. Such was the great character of Robert Price, that
he was made a Welsh judge by the very sovereign whose favourite plans he
had so patriotically thwarted.

Another marked event in the life of this English patriot was a second
noble stand he made against the royal authority, when in opposition to
the public good. The secret history of a quarrel between George the
First and the Prince of Wales, afterwards George the Second, on the
birth of a son, appears in this life; and when the prince in disgrace
left the palace, his royal highness proposed taking his children and the
princess with him; but the king detained the children, claiming the care
of the royal offspring as a royal prerogative. It now became a legal
point to ascertain "whether the education of his majesty's
grandchildren, and the care of their marriages, &c., belonged of right
to his majesty as king of this realm, or not?" Ten of the judges
obsequiously allowed of the prerogative to the full. Robert Price and
another judge decided that the education, &c., was the right of the
father, although the marriages was that of his majesty as king of this
realm, yet not exclusive of the prince, their father. He assured the
king, that the ten obsequious judges had no authority to support their
precipitate opinion; all the books and precedents cannot form a
prerogative for the king of this realm to have the care and education of
his grandchildren during the life and without the consent of their
father--a prerogative unknown to the laws of England! He pleads for the
rights of a father, with the spirit of one who feels them, as well as
with leg